word picture
2
4.2
- noun
- Literature
:
imagen verbal
- His talent for creating vivid word pictures makes his storytelling captivating.
- paint word pictures
- vivid word pictures
- give us a word picture
Like that's a very profound visual word picture that he drew.
- Like that's a very profound visual word picture that he drew.
- I could paint for you a word picture of a wacky, crazy kind of a character.
Examples
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The author uses rich descriptions to create a word picture that immerses the reader in the story.
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I love the word picture this verse presents.
Blog text (7) -
You are far too good at painting word pictures.
Fiction book (2000) -
There are some pictures below, but let me just paint a word picture:
Blog text (8) -
With that word picture, let's imagine we all sat down to eat lunch.
Blog text (10) -
You're painting a beautiful word picture.
Fiction book (1997) -
I appreciate your word picture and can only thank God for His eternal lovingkindness.
Blog text (5) -
Owen Young, a farm boy who became chairman of GE, provided a vivid word picture of what life had been like for a farm wife.
Blog text (8) -
To continue the word picture of Chateau Tobin: further to the left was a small restaurant that women and reviewers invariably described as cute.
Fiction book (1997) -
In her speech, she crafted a beautiful word picture of the sunset over the ocean.
Synonyms
445
3.3
A picture you form in your mind from words or ideas
279
2.0
A clear image in your mind of something
43
4.6
Language that makes you picture scenes, sights, or sounds
25
4.4
A description using words that shows what something is like
1
4.0
Words that make a clear strong picture in your mind
1
6.8
A clear description that shows how something looks or feels
1
4.2
An explanation of something using words rather than pictures
A description in words that makes you imagine something clearly
A clear, colorful description in words that makes you imagine the scene
A detailed written description of a painting or sculpture
Antonyms
How Vivid
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a vivid verbal description' is directly inferable from combining 'word' (language) with 'picture' (mental image): it denotes a picture made of words. This modifier+noun composition and the metaphorical but predictable use of 'picture' is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would likely understand the phrase.
Etymology
The compound noun word picture comes from the idea of using words to paint a picture in someone's mind. So, it means 'a vivid description' because the words create a 'mental image' you can see in your head.